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In December 2016, a story surfaced about a young blue-eyed boy who was purportedly beaten by a Muslim teenager because of his eye color, generally shared alongside an exhortation to pray for the child: The photograph, however, was not taken in Sweden, does not show a 12-year-boy, and it does not show a victim of a blue-eyed beating. This image actually shows Sophie Willis, a 4-year-old girl who was attacked by a Rottweiler in Cardiff in 2008: According to Fria Tider, a 15-year-old slapped a fellow student after a disagreement about eye color. The original article does not state that the slapper was Muslim, that he was an immigrant, or that the altercation resulted in serious injuries. The article did state that the boy's first language was Arabic, but this was used to illustrate the alleged cause of the altercation: a linguistic misunderstanding. The original Swedish story, however, was greatly exaggerated when it was republished by English-language web sites. It is also worth noting that Islam is a religion, not an ethnicity, and that it is possible to be Muslim and also have blue eyes — or any eye color at all.
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